In the longer view of the evolution of digital technology, though, CSS
[client-side scanning] is just the latest step in the inexorable
intrusion of surveillance devices into our lives. The trend that
started with reading our emails, moved on to logging our searches and
our browsing clickstreams, mining our online activity to create
profiles for targeting advertising at us and using facial recognition
to allow us into our offices now continues by breaching the home with
"smart" devices relaying everything back to motherships in the "cloud"
and, if CSS were to be sanctioned, penetrating right into our pockets,
purses and handbags. That leaves only one remaining barrier: the human
skull. But, rest assured, Elon Musk undoubtedly has a plan for that
too.